Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Trophy Wife 1.08 Review: Taking Control of the Matter

For all those that have yet to
watch tonight’s episode of Trophy Wife,
entitled ‘Lice and Beary White’, now would be a good time to go do that. This
is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! Proceed at your own discretion.

I really liked this week’s
episode. Aside from the school nurse, who was annoyingly bland and not funny at
all, this whole lice situation made for an interesting episode. We were able to
see everyone interact with each other, and see a struggle of power and wills
between Diane and Kate. I’m finally starting to see this series comedy grow
into its own, and the ensemble is definitely beginning to work well with each
other.

So, basically, this episode was
all about Bert being found with lice, and everyone having to be round up to
wash their hair of the bugs. Kate had things under control, but then Diane
swoops in and takes over, not believing Kate can handle this better than her.
Diane’s jabs at Kate were definitely funny, and Kate’s trying to get back at Diane
by switching out the lice shampoo made for a hilarious circumstance. Of course
Hillary’s play was Hair, under these circumstances. I totally loved Diane and
Kate at least agreeing to back away and let another kid take the wrap for
spreading lice. At least they managed to agree on one thing.

Elsewhere in the episode, Bert and
Warren struggled over who would get to keep Beary White, a well worn teddy
bear. I love every time Pete gets to use his job at home; it just brings a
certain realistic hilarity to things. The way he also tried to settle who would
get to keep the bear, by telling them the story of Solomon was perfect. Neither
of these kids are very smart upon hearing the story and being okay with the
bear being cut in half, but then Bert’s a kid and Warren obviously gave all his
smarts to Hillary.

All in all, this was a very
enjoyable episode. The Crazy Ones is
still my favourite new sitcom of the year, but this series definitely takes
second place. I’m not as big on sitcoms as I am dramas, so the fact that I’m
still watching this series definitely says something good about it. The lice
circumstance to this episode definitely gave it a lot of material, although I
doubt the bear will be remembered or mentioned again, with the fact it had lice
in it. Also, the fact that Jackie can’t drive was just hilarious. I’ll be sad
to not have this series on my Tuesday nights until December 3rd.